Mid-term elections are when voters decide whether they made the right choices last time. And except for 1994, when Newt Gingrich led Republicans to their present majority status, voters have been largely satisfied. Since World War II, the average mid-term gain in the House of Representatives has been just 25 seats.
Read More
Californians almost universally recognize that lack of metropolitan housing at all but the highest prices is one of the state’s most nagging infrastructure problems. Proposition 1C is the $2.85 billion housing component of the Examiner-supported Rebuild California $37 billion public works bond package negotiated by Gov. Schwarzenegger and the Legislature.
Read More
When Kevin Shelley resigned in disgrace last year as California’s secretary of state, having misused hundreds of millions of federal dollars, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger found the right replacement. He named Bruce McPherson, a onetime Santa Cruz newspaper editor and former legislator, to fill out the term.
Read More
‘You know," intoned Sen. John Kerry to the student crowd at Pasadena City College, "education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq." Now Kerry is in trouble for uttering a sentiment that most anti-Iraq war leftists keep to themselves: that our troops in Iraq are poorly educated people unable to grasp the folly of their sacrifices. That is the stereotype of the Michael Moore left, a central theme of Moore’s "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Read More
It looked for those final hours leading up to the horror (to be sure, before our newsroom’s Tuesday night deadline) that this year’s revelry would turn out tame, a model of how to celebrate a macabre tradition in a civilized way. But nine people cruelly shot, at party’s end, makes this the worst Halloween ever in the Castro.
Read More
The 2006 election is less than a week away. Based on the polls, Democrats seem to be popping Champagne, believing they will be taking control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate. Conversely, Republicans claim the Democrats are sipping their bubbly prematurely and will have to drown their sorrows after Nov. 7. And so the spin goes, as pundits from both sides of the political aisle analyze their crystal balls and the polls.
Read More
See if you agree with this proposition: The 19 acres along piers 27-31, long since idled on the Embarcadero, should be revitalized in some manner that benefits The City. A pretty simple "yes," wouldn’t you say?We thought so. And yet,the vision gets complicated, as so many urban plans do, when you start asking about desirable uses and just what sort of funding will flow into it. The preferable means of settling such questions is through the free market, where highest use is best determined along with who should take the financial risks.
Read More
Peruse news analyses, and you learn that few have been talking seriously about the single most important domestic issue facing the federal government — the fact that baby boomers are lining up to begin retiring in a few years and what that will mean to entitlement programs and consequently to the federal budget, the economy and intergenerational peace.
Read More
The armchair anthropologists among us love at this time of the year to speak of the thematic universality of those macabre thoughts we allow out of the dark recesses to play. Such celebrations cut across the continents, even creating consternation in the Castro.
Read More
With the collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations, economic liberalization may depend more on bilateral and regional free trade agreements. In America’s case, FTAs also provide geopolitical benefits, giving Washington a means to strengthen bilateral ties with other states at a time of increasing international challenge.Employing creative tactics to enhance American influence is particularly important in Asia, where China’s rise is transforming the region. The rapid growth of the People’s Republic of China has spawned growing Chinese investment and trade throughout Asia.
Read More
URL: http://www.sfexaminer.com/archive/19/19%3Fpage%3D220%2C0%2C0%2C3?page=449&%3Btype[story]=story&%3Bquicktabs_1=0&quicktabs_6=0&quicktabs_1=0
